TUDOR GARDENS 



and pulse together with a place for bee-hives." Some- 

 times, too, fruit trees were placed in a special enclos- 

 ure. Generally in the smaller gardens all sorts of 

 vegetation were included, and herbs, grown for medici- 

 nal purposes "to turn up their house and to furnish 

 their pot," were side by side with those cultivated 

 principally for their beauty. By "turning up" the 

 house was meant strewing the floors with sweet-smell- 

 ing herbs, a prevalent practice before the introduction 

 of carpets and still continued in a few churches. 



Among the more ornamental plants grown in the List of 



plants cul- 



garden were the acanthus, asphodel, auricula, amaranth tivated. 

 (flower gentle or flower amor), cornflower (or bottle 

 blew, red, and white], cowslip, daffodil, daisy, gilly- 

 flower (red, white, and carnation), hollyhock (red, white, 



and carnation), iris (flower 



de luce or the flos delici- 

 arum of the Middle Ages), 

 Indian eye, lavender, lark- 

 spur (larkes foot], lily of the 

 valley, lily (white and red), 

 double marigold, nigella Ro- 

 mana, pansy or heart's-ease, 

 pink, peony, periwinkle, 

 poppy, primrose, rocket, 



roses of many sorts, including the sweetbrier or eglan- 

 tine, snap-dragon (snag dragon), clove gillyflower 



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